Eager to take on new challenges, preferebly with live equipment, I decided to reclaim some disk space.
My Ubuntu install on my MacBookPro was sitting there unused for a while now. And with VM’s who needs to dual boot anyway?
So, let’s trash my Ubuntu install. Now joining my ‘windows’ disk to my active partition was a piece of cake. However the linux swap would not budge.
Ofcourse booting from another disk was a solution which is by me considered as a failure not a solution.
Simple solution in the end:
box:~ user$ diskutil list /dev/disk0
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *320.1 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Inlakesh 309.2 GB disk0s2
3: Linux Swap 4.1 GB disk0s3
box:~ user$ diskutil eraseVolume HFS+ oldswap disk0s3
Started erase on disk0s3
Unmounting disk
Erasing
Initialized /dev/rdisk0s3 as a 4 GB HFS Plus volume
Mounting disk
Finished erase on disk0s3 oldswap
box:~ user$ diskutil list /dev/disk0
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *320.1 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Inlakesh 309.2 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_HFS oldswap 4.1 GB disk0s3
box:~ user$ diskutil mergePartitions HFS+ Inlakesh disk0s2 disk0s3
Merging partitions into a new partition
Start partition: disk0s2 Inlakesh
Finish partition: disk0s3 oldswap
Started partitioning on disk0
Merging partitions
Waiting for disks to reappear
Growing disk
Finished partitioning on disk0
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *320.1 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Inlakesh 319.7 GB disk0s2
That’s it. Scrapping the uneeded partition (volume in apple diskutil speak) to something diskutil understands, i.e. HFS+, worked like a charm!
Enjoy.
